Foreign News: The People's Choice

Returns from Europe's 1945
elections were in. To examine them was to look on the face of a friend
returned from a long and painful journey. What the Continent had
endured and learned in the past six yearsand in the 20 years
preceding 1939was written on the ballots.

This much was plain: 1) the old Right was smashed; 2) the old Left had
not triumphed; 3) the Center, despised and declining between the wars,
had mightily revived; it had succeeded the Right and at the same time
had cut deeply into the Left's popular...